Thank you for posting the text of the journal when it was certain to be deleted later on. From December 30th, titled "Okay…so I FUCKING SUCK."
I’m not perfect.
There, I’ve admitted it. Wow, that was so incredibly difficult…but not really. That was far too easy. Let me go ahead and crucify myself, since it seems to be the only thing that will make certain people happy. I’m here to make all of you happy, of course. Why, you guys pay my paycheck every month, so I’ll “come clean”. Not to say that I think there’s anything to “confess” about. But anyways…
I am still a developing artist. As the great Michaelangelo said on his death bed, “Ancora Imparo”. Translation, “I am still [FUCKING] learning” (expletive added). I have never claimed to be the greatest artist in the land. Never. If I ever have, please let me know when I did so and I’ll take it back, right now.
In fact, just in case I ever did say it, I take it back.
So having said all that, I’ll say this:
I, on occasion, have used reference pics of real porn to base my illustrations off of. There. Happy now? I am so sorry that I used random porn pics that I found on the internet to learn and to produce nice looking furry porn for everyone. Here’s the crossbeam, here’s the nails. Crucify me. I deserve to be executed because I’m such a horrid person. I’ve ripped everyone off because I didn’t completely reinvent the wheel-o-pornography every time I set stylus to tablet. I’ve shamed every artist that has evolved beyond the need to ever, ever look at real life in order to get it right.
I FEEL FUCKING TERRIBLE.
There. I hope I’ve made someone happy.
Thank you to all the people that realize that referencing has to happen if you want your porn to look ZOMG FAPPABLE GOOD. And to all of you that want my blood because I drew a pic based on a random .gif I found on the internet for a paysite? Here. Take it. It’s yours. I throw myself at the mercy of the court.
If I had referenced an image that actually belonged to someone I could understand the concern of the multiple trolls that have been crawling up my spine all day...but a random pic I found on the net that has no copyright info (and not even a decent name I could credit anywhere on it anyway?)....seriously people, what's the big deal. Honestly.
But you know what? You’re right. I should never, EVER base a picture I draw on a real life photograph. This is SO wrong that it’s unspeakable. I’m going to be going on hiatus while I learn to draw without “ZOMG REFERENCING/TRACING/WHATEVER”. I’ll leave my horribly traced gallery (LOL I wonder how many of my commissions I referenced? Oh yeah…that’s right….NONE) up for everyone since I’m not one of those types that will go through and delete his entire gallery for the sake of a group of pretentious bastards.
Other than that, I’ll see you around FA. I’ll be back when I can draw without ever looking at real life. Don’t know how long that will be.
*ninja vanish*
After the trace and the overlay were posted, a few regular users at Lulz took a professional interest in Scappo. Dave, Usk, and others threw Scappo a polite personal message, and Eric Schwartz was contacted about the traced art that appeared on FurAfterDark. The response to this was the rant posted above, which lives on strawmen and deliberately confuses the line between referencing life and tracing. Scappo, no surprise, did not follow through on the threat to quit drawing. He's come back with several pieces,
like this, and these are so poorly drawn compared to his traced works that we have no doubt he's trying to do this on his own.
Through it all, few people seem to recognize that tracing actually makes an artist lazy and ignorant of important artistic elements... anatomy and lighting really stand out in Scappo's case. If you want your artists to improve, don't let them Xerox bodies then slap animal heads on the finished work.
